I
n his speech at the Conservative Party conference on Tuesday, Boris Johnson made the eye-catching claim that wind turbines will provide all the electricity used by UK households within a decade.
“Wind farms to power every home,” was the Daily Mail’s headline, based on an overnight pre-briefing on the contents of the prime minister’s speech.
Yet the only financial commitment actually in the speech with respect to achieving this green energy revolution by 2030 was £160m of government investment for port infrastructure to help manufacture and install wind turbines.